# Talha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/talha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,033 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,033 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,436, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 4,488 |
| 2012 | 27 | 3,878 |
| 2013 | 26 | 3,949 |
| 2014 | 36 | 3,149 |
| 2015 | 31 | 3,580 |
| 2016 | 27 | 3,972 |
| 2017 | 29 | 3,758 |
| 2018 | 32 | 3,512 |
| 2019 | 27 | 3,986 |
| 2020 | 37 | 3,127 |
| 2021 | 32 | 3,570 |
| 2022 | 50 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 38 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 48 | 2,741 |
| 2025 | 45 | 2,831 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 48 | 671 |
| 2012 | 59 | 592 |
| 2013 | 58 | 596 |
| 2014 | 50 | 670 |
| 2015 | 63 | 586 |
| 2016 | 41 | 790 |
| 2017 | 51 | 684 |
| 2018 | 58 | 619 |
| 2019 | 53 | 655 |
| 2020 | 52 | 656 |
| 2021 | 55 | 659 |
| 2022 | 66 | 571 |
| 2023 | 73 | 530 |
| 2024 | 56 | 664 |
| 2025 | 83 | 469 |

## People named Talha

- Talha ibn Ubaydullah, Arab Muslim military commander (c.594-656)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.